Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south suburbs, where he lived in Dolton and attended St. Mary’s parish before becoming Pope Leo XIV.

Prevost and his two brothers, Louis and John, were altar boys at St. Mary of the Assumption parish in Dolton, on the south side of Chicago, where his mother was a member of the Altar and Rosary ...

CHICAGO (WGN ... had been a substitute teacher at St. Rita years ago. “When the announcement came you heard an eruption through this school,” Deacon John Donahue said.

Catholics across the region are celebrating the historic announcement that the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the church was born and raised in the Chicago area. In his first ...

“We just figured we should go for Prevost, the Chicago guy ... the marginalized.” Deacon John Donahue, president at St. Rita, said the name a pope chooses comes with a lot of meaning.

Donation Options Search Search Search St. Mary of the Assumption Parish included this photo commemorating the 1982 meeting of a newly ordained Robert Prevost and Pope John Paul II in its 1986 book ...

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Growing up, Prevost attended St. Mary of the Assumption Parish. The parish became too expensive for the Chicago Archdiocese ... Prevost's political affiliation. John Grosso contributed to this ...

CHICAGO (WGN ... He was always a Sox fan,” John Prevost said. But the household was split: mom was a Cubs fan and his father was a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. Holy Name Cathedral ...

CHICAGO (WLS ... What's more, McMullen previously attended St. Gabriel Catholic School, where Pope Leo's brother John Prevost was the principal. The pope even presided over a Mass McMullen ...

“We just figured we should go for Prevost, the Chicago guy ... the marginalized.” Deacon John Donahue, president at St. Rita, said the name a pope chooses comes with a lot of meaning.